The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-11
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
A Day Used in Hearing Reports and Intr
ducing Bills.

A Day Used in Hearing Reports and Intro
ducing Bills.
The House, yesterday. was opened with pray
er by Rev. W. F. Sheridan, of Blackford-street
M. E. Church.
Mr.. Cough introduced bill to prevent cruelty
to animals.
Mr. Miller, bill to regulate the construction
bitches
The special order was the consideration of H.
B. co. the committees substitute for Mr. Fleece's
temperance bill.
Mr. Buckles moved to recommit the bill, with
instructions to amend the bill and report this
morning. Agreed to-
Mr. Morse, from the committee on labor re-
ported on H. B. 293, introduced by himself, to
regulate the securing and enforcement of me-
chanics' liens. Certain amendments of q minor
character were recommended, and the bill was
ordered engrossed.
The effect of the bill, as amended. is to enlarge
the rights Of contractors and mechanics; make
the law applicable to men in shops and manu-
factories, and provide to what property the lien
shall attach.
The committee on military affairs recon-
mended some amendments to Mr. Nolins militia
bill.
The committee on temperance recommended
the passage of the bill in relation to the study of
physiology and hygiene in the public schools, in
PRODUCED by Mr.. Fleece.
The committee on corporations recommended
the passage of the bill repeating the present tele
phone law.
The committee on the affairs of the city of In
dianapolis recommended that the bill introduced
by Mr.. Caven to authorize school commissioners
to issue bonds to fund their indebtedness be
amended and passed.
The committee roads recommended that the
bill introduced by Mr.. Stubblefeld to exempt
coal-miners from working the roads be not
passed.
The committee on insurance recommended the
indefinite postponement of the bill introduced by
Mr. Gordon in relation to the regulation of for
eign insurance companies doing business in the
State of Indiana
The committee on reformatory institutions
recommended the passage of the bill introduced
by Mr.. Fleece TO appropriate money for enlarg-
ing the chapel at the Reform School for boys.
The committee on mines and mining recon-
mended the amendment and passage of the bill
regulating and protecting natural gas companies
in laying mains
The committee on labor recommended that the
bill introduced by Mr.. Morse concerning steam
boiler inspection be amended and passed It
recommended q substitute for the bill intro
duced by Mr. Schley to abolish contract labor in
the State prisons. and the passage of the bill in
troduced by Mr. Morse to legalize the incorpora-
ton OF trades unions in the State of Indiana.
It further recommended the amendment and
passage of the bill introduced by Mr. Cox to reg
ulate the emplo yment of women and children If.
manufacturing establishments
The following bills were introduced:
By Mr.: Pierce: To regulate the changing of boun
| daries of counties.
By Mr.. Ibach: Resolution to instruct the commit
tee On military affairs to examine the soldiers grave
yard at hnghtstown and report the advisabty Of
erecting suitable marks for the unnamed graves.
| Adopted
By Mr.. Galbraith: To require telegraph companies
to receive and transmit messages correctly. Also
Ore to require township Institutes to be held by the
| teachers.
!, By Mr.. Kelly, of Boone: To amend the assessment
| law
| By Mr.. Harley: To amend the acts in relation to
partition fences Aso One in relation to the reloca
ton OF county seats.
| By Mr.. Cushman: In relation to employing chill
| dren Also. To provide for the disposition of the
residre OF the fund granted to the Indiana legion
| during the civil war.
| By Mr.. Robinson: To regulate the number Of men
to be allowed to work in coal mines. Also: In re-
lation to working roads.